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What 📔book are you reading right now?

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Wodehouse could convey a vivid image of someone in a few words-- like his aunt's husband, who looked like "a pterodactyl with a secret sorrow".

Or his aunt's silver cow creamer: " Merely looking at it took one into a different, and horrible world".
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"Had the air of a man who was looking for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle"..........ok that's enough, I'll stop now before I get carried away with Plum quotes lol
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
First! I've read a few others but not this one.
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It's one of his "adult" novels*** that I liked. Not my favorite one, but still pretty good.
Puppet Masters I enjoyed, Double Star is pretty high up there, Door Into Summer was good, there are more, I'm sure, I just can't recall the titles.

*** Most of his later "adult" stuff that he wrote toward the end of his life could be tossed into the fireplace with little regret, beginning with SIASL (imo).
 
@Erestor Arcamen
Have you read his [juvenile] novel "The Rolling Stones"?
If you have, watch for the tie-in to it in MIAHM which in the Heinlein universe predates The Rolling Stones.
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
No I haven't but I'll have to check it out.
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It's not his best Juvie stuff but I liked it enough to reread it several times (and it's on my shelves which means I consider it a "keeper" and not something destined for the thrift store... or the fireplace😉 ).
 
Deimos said:
It's not his best Juvie stuff but I liked it enough to reread it several times (and it's on my shelves which means I consider it a "keeper" and not something destined for the thrift store... or the fireplace😉 ).
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Thanks, I'll check it out for sure, it sounds like an interesting book.
 
Amon Rudh said:
Just started Tales from the Perilous Realm. One of my Christmas books. Really enjoying it. I can see this being another rather nice palette cleanser after more complex tomes. 🙂
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I read it. I really liked all of the stories except for Roverandom. That one is definitley a children's story, much more so than The Hobbit.
I found the last third of it tedious. But I thoroughly enjoyed the other stories.
Also included is the essay On Fairy Stories...that one may slow you down a bit...Tolkien at his most scholarly! 🙂
 
Agreed, although it's nice to read something lighter every now and again. Makes a change from History of Middle-earth, astrophysics and evolutionary books for sure. I am finding Tolkien reading a very deep but very rewarding dive 😀
 
Just finished Roverandom and I actually enjoyed it. Agreed it's certainly a children's story but a nice read nonetheless. It reminded me of a number of old children's TV programmes such as e.g. The Clangers.
 
As I already had everything in other editions, I didn't buy Tales -- though I'd be interested in reading Shippey's introduction. Was any context given for the origin of Roverandom?
 
Amon Rudh said:
Just finished Roverandom and I actually enjoyed it. Agreed it's certainly a children's story but a nice read nonetheless. It reminded me of a number of old children's TV programmes such as e.g. The Clangers.
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I liked the premise, it just dragged on too long in the last third. If it were shorter I probably would have no objections to it.
Now, being a children's story, and one that you would tell a child a little bit of which every night, the dragging on wouldn't matter.
In fact, it would probably delight a very young child.
It just doesn't work very well (imo) for "adult reading".
The style, suitable for holding a child's attention night after night, didn't hold mine (toward the end) reading it in only one sitting.**
And bear in mind, this is from a person who has no trouble reading (and even re-reading) the three volume LOTR, or the Sil, or Middlemarch, or The Once and Future King for that matter; the latter two being quite lengthy.

** It did, in fact, hold my attention in so far as I wanted to learn the dog's fate; it's just that the reading of it became a bit of a slog.
 
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Tolkien, philologist that he was, could not resist the occasional word-play.
You all caught his little jest in the dog's name, yes? (and not just the "Rover" part... a common enough dog's name)
 
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